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By Gunda Pavilonytė, BA Chinese It has been months since tensions escalated in the longstanding Israel-Palestine conflict on October 7th, becoming a prevalent topic in recent media, dominating headlines and attracting global attention to a struggle that has been simmering for decades. Beginning in the mid-20th century, it is one
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By J.S.Bennett – BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics In a fraught geopolitical landscape, cooperation and dialogue often prove to be the vanguards of peace itself; in this regard, it can be said that the world breathed a collective sigh of relief on the 15th of November, following the meeting
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By Kristi Greenwood, BA Japanese Chinese customs stated all imports of Japanese seafood would be banned ‘to protect the health of consumers’ Japan’s decades-long plan of releasing nuclear wastewater into the ocean, equal to 500 Olympic swimming pools, has finally begun. The wastewater has resulted from the cleanup project
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By Gunda Pavilonytė, BA Chinese This year’s ‘Golden Week’, centred around China’s National Day, coincides with the Mid-Autumn festival resulting in a 10-day long holiday from September 29th to October 8th. This is one of the first breaks since the complete lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions by
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By Husnain Muhammad, BA International Relations and History President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping formally met during the G20 summit, discussing various topics from global food security to nuclear weapons. However, both the White House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China tell
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By Safira Rachmadian, BA International Relations and Global Development On Monday 14 November, leaders of the G20 nations arrived in Bali, Indonesia for the annual G20 summit. This year’s summit has been overshadowed by peak political unrest concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as increasing tensions between
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Anna Fenton-Jones, BA Middle Eastern Studies China continues to expand its Belt and Road Initiative into the Middle East, finalising a deal with Syria that President Bashar al-Assad’s government hopes will allow it to begin the process of rebuilding the country after more than 10 years of civil war.
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“The ambition is immense” – one economist explains in their analysis of ‘What is China’s Belt and Road initiative?’ (BRI). The strategy launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, involves supplying trillions of dollars as part of an infrastructure project to reroute global trade. For instance, gas pipelines from the
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Kajol Lally, BA History and Social Anthropology Ai Weiwei’s first major UK exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art is a thought provoking and intense display of the difficulty faced by many artists. Weiwei deals with challenging themes reflecting human rights, freedom of self-expression and a generation’s political